Alexander

Surely there is a more user friendly interface than directly editing
the Registry? There was one in Windows XP!

Are you accepting the 15% default?


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Regards.

Gerry
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Alexander Suhovey wrote:[color=blue]
> Gerry,
>
> There's a DiskPercent entry under
> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\SystemRestore\cfg
> registry key. It's value is 0x0000000f (15 decimal).
>
> You can try to change it, reboot and see if it'll lower disk space
> allocation for System Restore... or break your OS.
>
> Don't forget to post back with results.
>
>
> "Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@tenretnitb.com> wrote in message
> news:Oq6aY4MPHHA.4172@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Richard
>>
>> What is the procedure for viewing the contents of the System Volume
>> Information folder? Is it true that the default setting is 15% of
>> volume? Can the default be decreased? If so how?
>>
>> Setting default disk allocations based on a percentage of volume
>> has in many quarters for a long time been felt to be a misguided
>> approach. Are there any better ways for calculating a reasonable
>> allocation? Is a consensus of opinion on this issue emerging?
>>
>> abcd please note 15% of 75 gb is 11.25 gb i.e your missing space!
>>
>> --
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Gerry
>> ~~~~
>> FCA
>> Stourport, England
>> Enquire, plan and execute
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Richard Urban wrote:[color=darkred]
>>> Your apparent lost space is in the same locations that it was with
>>> Windows XP. These are hidden/system files and System Restore files
>>> (System Volume Information).
>>>
>>>
>>> "abcd" <abcd@abcd.com> wrote in message
>>> news:%23jT81WMPHHA.3944@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>> I have 75GB on hard disk. I have installed Vista,SQL Server, MSDN
>>>> library. It shows 28GB is consumed. If I count the total of all
>>>> the
>>>> folders it comes to around 16GB. Where is 11GB?[/color][/color][/color]